August 17, 2026

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⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Cass, MN; Itasca, MN; St. Louis, MN – Monday, August 17, 2026

Event Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Severity Severe
Urgency Immediate
Certainty Observed
Area Cass, MN; Itasca, MN; St. Louis, MN
Effective 8/17/2026, 5:22:00 PM CDT
Expires 8/17/2026, 6:15:00 PM CDT

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 17 at 5:22PM CDT until August 17 at 6:15PM CDT by NWS Duluth MN

Details

SVRDLH

The National Weather Service in Duluth MN has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Southern Itasca County in north central Minnesota…
Northeastern Cass County in north central Minnesota…
West central St. Louis County in northeastern Minnesota…

* Until 615 PM CDT.

* At 521 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 13 miles southwest of McCarthy Beach State Park to
10 miles north of Taconite to near Bena, moving east at 25 mph.

HAZARD…Quarter size hail.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Damage to vehicles is expected.

* Severe thunderstorms will be near…
Deer River, Bena, Ball Club, and Lake Winnibigoshish around 525 PM
CDT.
Hibbing, Nashwauk, Taconite, and Zemple around 535 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of these severe thunderstorms include
Coleraine, Keewatin, Cohasset, Grand Rapids, Chisholm, Days High
Landing and Pengilly.

Instructions

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.


This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.